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Skały, Opole Voivodeship

village in Opole Voivodeship, Poland

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ28676107 ↗
Source-derived summary

Skały (German: Ober Oleschka) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zdzieszowice, within Krapkowice County, Opole Voivodeship, south-western Poland.

Etymology

The village was known as Ober Oleschka in German. In 1936, Nazi administration of the German Reich changed the village's name to Hubertushöh. Following the Second World War, the Polish name Skały was introduced by the Commission for the Determination of Place Names.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Skały, Opole Voivodeship” is village in Opole Voivodeship, Poland. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Skały, Opole and Voivodeship, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1936—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Skały, Opole and Voivodeship is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village in Opole Voivodeship, Poland” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28676107. The first chronological checks are 1936.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Skały, Opole Voivodeship”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Skały, Opole Voivodeship primary sources, Skały, Opole Voivodeship archive and Skały research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Skały, Opole Voivodeship”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Skały, Opole Voivodeship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.